falkirkbear
Well-Known Member
Yeah, with regards to me and my son its not going to be an issue soon as he turns 16 shortly, however we've been lucky though the cccs and our RSC that since he was 5/6 he's been at pretty much every game with me home and away, my opinion (and it is just my opinion!) now is that for younger fans its going to be a lot harder through mygers where the dad will pick up a ticket in his tier but might not in the sales window for his kid, whereas the cccs would have allocated them together.Probably been discussed numerous times on the thread already mate. I recall it being an emotive subject when the scheme was announced. The example you quote still has pitfalls. I will come back to the RangersTV analogy since its the most common means of gaining extra points. If its a family membership and the Dad subscribes to RangersTV then its not right that the points for that also go to the child, or indeed children, who form the family. Unless, as I've suggested, you take the points and split them in half, or a third or whatever. I think that would be a workable idea - though many parents might disagree at taking a points hit.
And a nightmare to administer as you suggest. Trying to keep yourself and you son on the same points will, I fear, prove to be a forlorn hope. There will be games, especially as he gets older, where he might go with his mates and you don't go - or he can't attend due to school exams or whatever and you go on your own. Repeated multiple annual subscriptions for RangersTV as you have done is also quite a hit and not really sustainable - or at least wise - in the longer term. You're choice, of course, but if it were me I'd just let it evolve naturally and see where it takes you both. Thankfully right now you are at least on the same tier. That too, inevitably, will change at some point.
Its a minefield though, overall I agree with the whole mygers idea, there are just wee things here and there that could be tweaked to make it even better, the biggest issue I raised at the RSC meeting I was at with Greg and Natalie was the capability of the ticket sales platform on the website to cope, the recent mygers ticket registration for the launch of the shop didn't do anything to bolster my confidence, whats it going to be like when the window opens for Easter road for example? However that's for a different day!!